Quality USA Steel; Imperial Frontier Double Eagle Drop Point Knife

Description

Imperial Frontier #425 Double Eagle Drop Point Caping Knife
New Vintage IMPERIAL FRONTIER #425 DOUBLE EAGLE FIXED BLADE KNIFE with ORIGINAL QUALITY LEATHER BELT SHEATH.
The knife measures 7-1/4 inches overall with a just over 3-inch drop point Stainless Steel blade.
It has hefty hardwood scales for the handle with 3 large brass pins holding it together.
The knife is tang stamped FRONTIER with the Powder Horn Emblem on one side and 425 IMPERIAL STAINLESS USA on the other.
One side of the blade is etched FRONTIER DOUBLE EAGLE.
Many people do not realize the connection between Schrade knives and Imperial knives. Schrade Cut Co. was bought out by Albert Baer in 1946 and joined by his brother Albert Baer. They also owned Imperial Knife co. and Ulster. After the 1973 name change from Schrade Walden to Schrade USA, in 1973 there were many old open stock knives dropped from Schade’s Production and new tooling was installed at the Schrade plant in Ellington N.Y. The Schrade Saga is an exceptionally long connect the dots puzzle. Being businessmen rather than just getting rid of the old tooling for the discontinued models. They sent it to the Imperial R.I. plant and started producing the Frontier knives and other higher quality knives. You see many Schrade blade patterns in the knives produced between 1975 and 1985 when they merged the 2 companies at the Ellington plant and eventually discontinued the better knives like the Frontier series.